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Li Jie picked out the last few ornaments and ordered, "Eliot, divide these things." Alexandra and Nastia's things were packed separately and given to Jean Gus to take with them. ”

"Yes, sir." Elliot, the butler, meticulously arranged for servants to assist Buberry's commissioners in tidying up, while reporting in an orderly manner. "Miss Kusacina and Miss Tikerp have come to live twice during your absence from New York, and I have sent flowers and greeting cards to them every day, as you requested. In addition, Mr. Evelyn has arranged for them to move into an apartment at 15 Central Park West Avenue, and he will report back to you on other matters. ”

"I just did my duty, sir." Elliot, the butler, nodded respectfully and continued to smile.

"Thank you for your service, Albert, my treasurer will be in touch with you and settle the bill together." Li Jie immediately shook hands with Albert Barclay, the VIP service manager of Buberry's New York main store, who was waiting for him all the time, and the other party was so polite with a smile on his face that he didn't even take the topic of checkout.

These luxury brands that have been restricted from entering the high-end shopping malls in China with long cordons and put on a high face are humble and enthusiastic to the extreme, and they can even send the boutique products in the store to his door for him to choose, which fully demonstrates the power of capital. Of course - such a service is only available to a very small number of super-rich and celebrities.

"Archibald, my friend, it seems that you look good." After explaining this, Li Jie finally smiled and patted Archibald Evelyn on the shoulder and looked at him a few times.

The new deputy head of Citibank's private client department arrived at the airport to greet Li Jie as soon as possible, which shows how much he cares about this big financier, and he responded politely and smiled when he heard Li Jie's words: "Thanks to you, everything is fine." ”

"We don't need to be so polite to each other, Archie. I believe that you do things, and those trivial things will be good for my subordinates to connect with my people. Li Jie was a little curious about his intentions, obviously with a purpose.

"I'm worried that they won't be clear, so it's better for me to handle it." After Archibald finished speaking, he carefully took out a delicate invitation from his briefcase and put it in front of Li Jie. "Another thing, there is an important person in the group who has sent you an invitation, so I must deliver it to you in person."

Li Jie's eyes fell on the invitation card on the table, which was a hollow invitation depicting a simple pattern, and the simple and exquisite design fully demonstrated the owner's taste. He opened the invitation and saw that it read: "I would like to invite Mr. Bruce Lee to the AACR Fashion Charity Dinner on September 9 at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency (park_hyatt) in Midtown Manhattan (153_west_57th_street)." ”

The inscription is a beautiful line of handwriting: Your friend, Lowell Lockheed (lowell_r_lockheed).

Li Jie held the invitation and looked at it carefully, as if he was a little distracted, and did not speak for a long time. Archibald on the side looked nervous, and whispered with a little apprehension: "Mr. Lockheed is a Citigroup ......"

"No introduction." Li Jie waved his hand to interrupt him, and continued to flip through the invitation card in his hand with his fingertips with a bit of playfulness, falling into deep thought. From the earliest time he set his sights on Citibank, he has not relaxed his attention to this huge interest group for a moment, and has already been familiar with any of these important people, so to speak, he knows much more than ordinary people, and how can he not know what kind of big man sent the invitation.

Lowell Lockheed, a member of Citigroup's board of directors -- that's probably what Archibald didn't finish.

In the United States, no matter from any direction upward, what can never be avoided is monopoly conglomerates and behind-the-scenes politics. In addition to the most well-known Morgan consortium and the Rockefeller consortium, as a large eastern consortium that emerged after the war, the First Citibank consortium is also in the forefront.

In fact, the relationship between these consortia is far closer than most people think, especially in today's rapid development, it can almost be described as you have me, I have you, for example, the First Citibank consortium has many companies jointly controlled by the Morgan consortium, the DuPont consortium, and the Chicago consortium.

At the heart of this super-monopoly is the core of this super-monopoly consortium, and each of the members of Citigroup's board of directors is a real big man, just to name a few examples of how distinguished they are and who they are: Roberto Ramirez (roberto_hernández_ramírez), president of the National Bank of Mexico (banco_nacional_de_mexico); Richard Parsons (richard_d_parsons), Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, and so on. Even the Honourable Gerald Rudolph Ford (gerald_r_ford), the outgoing president of the United States of America, who pardoned former President Richard Nixon's famous speech, was an honorary director of Citigroup until his death.

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The power of these Citigroup bigwigs can be imagined. And this Mr. Lowell Lockheed is no less extraordinary, in addition to being a director of Citigroup, he is also the chairman of the board of directors of Lockheed Martin. This company controls 40 percent of the world's defense market, one-third of the Pentagon's annual procurement budget is used to pay for its orders, and it covers almost all the production and launch of military satellites in the United States.

In fact, the First Citibank consortium has grown so rapidly precisely because its economic power is made up of First Citibank and large corporations and corporations that are closely related to arms production. In addition to the production of large civil airliners, the Boeing and United Aircraft Corporations under its control have always been major arms contractors in the United States, mainly contracting military products such as jet bombers, Minuteman 3 intercontinental missiles, the Apollo program, and the manufacture of rockets and space launchers.

And Lockheed Martin, a big guy with annual sales of more than 50 billion US dollars, naturally also has a close relationship with Citi, and the link between the two is probably Lowell Lockheed.

Why did such a big man who doesn't seem to have anything to do with him suddenly send him an invitation? And apparently he was particularly concerned about his whereabouts, and as soon as he arrived in New York today, the invitation was delivered. Countless ideas flashed through Li Jie's mind, and his eyes wandered around the words of the AACR fashion charity dinner for a long time, and he knew that it represented the National Cancer Research Foundation. But in the end, Li Jie gave up his guess, anyway, everything will naturally be revealed at that time.

"Please tell Mr. Lockheed that thanks for the invitation, I will be on time." Either way, it was a great opportunity to get to the heart of Citigroup faster.

Archibald was interrupted, and stood respectfully the whole time, without making a sound. He felt that although Li Jie in front of him was much more polite than when he first saw him, he was more imposing, and his words and demeanors revealed an irreversible majesty, even more heart-wrenching than a big man like Mr. Lockheed.

Just when he was taken aback by this idea, Li Jie's answer rescued him, and he hurriedly smiled and agreed, and after saluting, he went to the side to communicate with the treasurer Kit Leslie. Including the billion-dollar loan, there will be a lot of things that the two of them will need to coordinate.